The reply is also an indirect response to the associates of Muqbil ibn Hadi, like his fellow Salafi sect leader, the late Nasirud-Din al-Albani (d. 1999) and others who followed their track in this age in attempting to weaken the status of the Imam and Mujtahid of his age, Abu Hanifa al-Nu’man ibn Thabit al-Kufi (80-150 AH, rahimahullah), as a reliable transmitter of Hadith.

A work in reply to al-Albani was also compiled by the late Pakistani Shaykh, Abdur Rashid al-Nu’mani (d. 1999). See – HERE